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IROS
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
Efficiency Improvement in Monte Carlo Localization through Topological Information
- Monte Carlo localization is known to be one of the most reliable methods for pose estimation of a mobile robot. Many studies have been conducted to improve performance of MCL. Al...
Tae-Bum Kwon, Ju-Ho Yang, Jae-Bok Song, Woojin Chu...
HRI
2011
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Learning to interpret pointing gestures with a time-of-flight camera
Pointing gestures are a common and intuitive way to draw somebody’s attention to a certain object. While humans can easily interpret robot gestures, the perception of human beha...
David Droeschel, Jörg Stückler, Sven Beh...
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ICRA
2009
IEEE
183views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Turning dynamics and passive damping in flapping flight
—we investigated whether flapping flight has an inherent stability by analyzing the inertial and aerodynamic effects of flapping wings on body dynamics. Based on wing and body ki...
Bo Cheng, Steven N. Fry, Qingfeng Huang, William B...
IROS
2008
IEEE
91views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems
Abstract— We present a novel type of inter-module connection mechanism for waterborne modular robotic systems. The proposed mechanism exploits the thermoelectric effect to cool d...
Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella,...
IROS
2008
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Transition-based RRT for path planning in continuous cost spaces
This paper presents a new method called Transition-based RRT (T-RRT) for path planning problems in continuous cost spaces. It combines the exploration strength of the RRT algorith...
Leonard Jaillet, Juan Cortés, Thierry Sim&e...